Unit 8- Civil Rights Movement:

civil rights- what people are able and allowed to do ( by law)

My Photo:

  • big bus on fire with a lot of black smoke
  • an ice cream sign, the place is named Mell-o
  • the burning bus was near a house
  • why is the bus on fire?
  • why is a person walking away from the burning bus?
  • the person probably did it and walked away
  • MI: freedom riders were attacked by an angry mob who burned their bus because they did not like how they were civil rights activist

class notes:
  • Martin Luther King jr. fought segregation
  • jim crow laws--> segregation
  • African americans would go to a lunch counter to asked to be served and sometimes the restaurants would serve them, call the police, or riots would form
    • Freedom riders protested segregation--> they were white and black
  • sit-in--> protesting the segregated lunch counters
    • example of civil disobedience
  • Rosa park arrested for sitting in front of the bus and not giving it up to the white person
  • The march on washington --> protest march for equal rights--> jobs, voting, school integration


C. Key Questions for our brief look at the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s (use info and links below for help):
  • ‍What is a civil rights movement?

    • A civil rights movement was a movement for women and African Americans so that they could obtain civil rights.
  • ‍What were the main goals of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s in America?

    • Integration
    • boycott- blacks would have an equal right to sit anywhere on the bus
  • ‍Who was Martin Luther King Jr. and what did he believe in?

    • Martin Luther King jr. was an African American civil rights leader who believed that African Americans should have equal rights, no matter the skin color
  • ‍What were the key events of the Civil Rights Movement?

    • the Montgomery Bus Boycott
    • Birmingham and the March on Washington
    • Selma to Montgomery March
  • ‍What strategies were used to accomplish the goals of the Civil Rights Movement?

    • people protested
    • boycott
  • ‍What accomplishments were made?

    • Voting rights act
    • some schools were integrated